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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 8h

Call for Applications //SOLITUDE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 2026–2028 // 🎉

From October 15, 2025 to November 14, 2025, fellowships of six to twelve months duration will be offered.

For more information please visit our website https://www.akademie-solitude.de/de/

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 1d

✨ Save the Date: »Open Solitude« ✨
On Nov 29, 2025, 30 international artists & researchers open their studios at Akademie Schloss Solitude – with exhibitions, performances, concerts & readings. Free entry – come by! 💜

Design: @basics09

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting news: former fellow Dániel Szalai is a finalist for the Leopold Bloom Art Award!

His installation »A House Like No Other« at the Kiscell Museum links industrial bulls’ lives to the Minotaur myth, exploring isolation, domestication, and human-animal relations.

Image: © Dániel Szalai

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 6d

Former fellow Basir Mahmood is seeking participants in Düsseldorf for his installation »Point of Arrival«!

He’s looking for people who recently moved - or moved long ago - to share their stories of arrival in Düsseldorf.

Interested? Contact: [email protected]

Image: © Basir Mahmood

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 7d

New on the SOLITUDE BLOG: Current fellow Hiba G. Isleem turns fragments of her family archive into playful spaces of memory -> Read here: https://bit.ly/3KvCP0l

More about Hiba: https://bit.ly/46KEzuf

Image: © Hiba G. Isleem

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 8d

Exhibition opening in the former Galeria Kaufhof Stuttgart, October 2, 6 PM!

🌟 With Anna Gohmert, Jochen Damian Fischer, Hanieh Fatouraee, Atsuko Mochida, Paul Lissner, Marvin Unger, Alexandra Haas, Michael Schramm, Helen Weber, Georg Lutz, Fabian Widukind Penzkofer, Julia Rhizoma & Lily Abichahine

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 9d

SAVE THE DATE: »BLOOD THIRSTY« by Ira Melkonyan will be presented at Theater Rampe on Saturday, October 18, 6 PM. 🎉

The performance explores blood as symbol and substance - its mysticism, politics, and feminist meanings.

Image: © Kinosaki International Arts Centre and Photo by bozzo

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 13d

SAVE THE DATE: Sept. 27, 2025, 2–8 PM
The Schaudepot Special XV – What can opera (still) do?

A day of discovery with workshops, performances, talks & food! This edition explores contemporary music theatre, questioning what opera can give us - and what we can give back.

Image: © Dominique Brewing

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 14d

STUTTGART SAVE THE DATE: Solitude alumna Neda Kovinić returns with her performance »MOODY DRIFTS: AFFECTIVE RESISTANCE« at Theater Rampe on October 10 & 11, 7 PM. A cooperation and project that took shape during her Solitude fellowship.

Video: © Neda Kovinić »MOODY DRIFTS«

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 16d

SAVE THE DATE: Solitude im Literaturhaus #2

Current fellows of Akademie Schloss Solitude present works that turn the written word into fresh media, spatial & poetic forms. In cooperation with Literaturhaus Stuttgart.

October 1st, 7.30 pm

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 19d

We’re back with #FellowFriday! Meet Aleksander Zain, a Berlin-based dancer, choreographer & new media artist.

His work blends contemporary floorwork, performance & video, exploring the body’s strength beyond social limits.

Find out more about him here: linktr.ee/sergiudita

Image: ©

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 20d

Solitude alumna Alicja Bielawska is part of the exhibition »The Clothed Home« (on view until Oct 19, 2025) in South Korea at the Seoul Museum of Craft Art.

It explores how textiles connect us with nature and the seasons!

Image: © Jakub Celej / Adam Mickiewicz Institute

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 21d

Former fellows Elise Eeraerts & Roberto Aparicio Ronda present their work in the exhibition »Versumpfung« (Swamping) at Art Association Arnsberg.

Exhibition: 12. Sep – 16. Nov 2025
Infos: https://bit.ly/4631LmY

Images: © Elise Eeraerts & Roberto Aparicio Ronda

Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 23d

Workshop Recap 💙

Fellows Sharmila Samant, Matilde Outeiro & Kenneth Boa-Amponsem hosted their workshop: Indigo Dyeing with Nana Serwaah. Participants explored dyeing techniques, watching fabrics shift from green to luminous blue.

Soon, these hand-dyed textiles will become bags!

📸: Fabian Faylona

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 26d

We’re back with #FellowFriday! 🎉 Meet Sergiu Diță, a Bucharest-based performer and emerging choreographer.

Find out more about him here: https://linktr.ee/sergiudita

Image: © Anca Stoica & Sergiu Diță »Balkan Ballerinas«, photo: Claudio Rodriguez

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · 29d

We are very happy to welcome the 2025 Fellows of the Solitude Exchange Network at Akademie Schloss Solitude!

With Sergiu Diță, Gábor Kristóf, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Sanja Bistričić Srića, Radina & Roslana Yotova and Aleksander Zain.

Image: © Akademie Schloss Solitude

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ausschreibung: Marie-Zimmermann-Stipendium 2025/26! 🎉

Für deutschsprachige Nachwuchsdramaturg*innen. 🎭

Jetzt bewerben! Infos hier: https://bit.ly/4m1S0eL

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great news: Former fellow Nino Bulling are part of the exhibition »Évidence. Dessiner le présent« at Musée Tomi Ungerer, Strasbourg! 🎉 👀

Images: All photos by Mathieu Bertola.
1–2: © Nino Bulling, A Break (2022), exhibition views from »Évidence. Dessiner le présent«, Musée Tomi Ungerer, 2025.

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Sep 4

Former fellow Lina Lapelytè presents »In The Dark, We Play« at The Cosmic House, London, on view until Dec 19. Created with long-term collaborators, the work continues her exploration of music, pop culture & vulnerability.

© Lina Lapelytė, 2022. Photo: Rasa Juškevičiūtė

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Sep 2

Solitude Alumna Ulrike Aigner presents her long-term artwork »ONE MILLION – Das Boot« at the German Bundestag!

Since 2014, Aigner has been handcrafting porcelain vessels with the goal of creating 1,000,000 unique pieces over 300 years.

Image: © Ulrike Aigner

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Aug 28

Former fellow and performer Winnie Huang is featured at this year’s Lucerne Festival from August 12 to September 14, 2025 with her work »nexus of now«.

On Sunday, 14 September at 15:00, Huang will perform at the Festival!

Image © Winnie Huang; visuals © WARPED TYPE (Andreas Huck, Roland Nebe)

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Aug 25

Former fellows Monika Czyżyk and Neil Luck present their new film »Almanach« – a hybrid of docu-fiction, music video & experimental performance.

Watch the trailer here: https://bit.ly/4mldapa

Image: © Czyżyk & Luck

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great news: Former fellow Mounir Saeed has been awarded the Pina Bausch Fellowship! He’ll spend six months in Dresden with composer & Solitude alum Rachel C. Walker, exploring »Chaos Theory« in music & choreography. 🎉

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Image: © Lea Gubic, Akademie Schloss Solitude

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Aug 20

We’re thrilled to share that current fellow Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro joins Naomi Beckwith’s artistic team for documenta 16! 🎉 Together with Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford and Xiaoyu Weng.

Image: © Nicolas Wefers / documenta 16 artistic team

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Akademie Schloss Solitude @akademiesolitude.bsky.social · Aug 18

Last Thursday, Marco Pando hosted »Savage Mind« at Akademie Schloss Solitude, exploring language, technology, and Latin America’s linguistic heritage with José-Carlos Mariátegui and Roberto Zariquiey.

Thanks for coming by! 💚

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